Kieran Dunn
August 2026 · kierancdunn.com

Ventures

The work I like to do.

Procurement is less about buying and more about de-risking the future and protecting your partners along the way. I work as a fractional, embedded operator — procurement and operations leadership on demand — across four arenas, plus an invite-only incubator.

AI TransformationProfessional services
Re-architecting a services firm around AI.
Turning manual advisory work into agentic systems built on a single source of truth — faster delivery, decisions you can audit, and margin that expands instead of leaking. I run the playbook on my own practice before I bring it to anyone else's.
Mergers & AcquisitionsChange management
Where two companies overlap is where the merger pays off.
In a marketing-and-technology merger, procurement is the value engine: consolidate software, renegotiate on combined volume, and merge spend data into real visibility with centralized, strategic negotiations. ROI validated through auditable financials — a confident foundation to grow into new markets. Consultative COO work, so the principals can focus on the partnership.
Infrastructure ServicesConstruction
Margin prediction for the build.
For a North American construction firm: geolocation dashboards to prospect high-value clients in key geographies, targeted outreach that lowers acquisition cost, and multi-vendor materials monitoring so every project meets cost and quality expectations — while the crews stay focused on the real work. More consistent invoicing and client support, with energy spent on the highest-value clients.
Consumer GoodsPremium / CPG beverage
For a small business, speed of service is cash.
Fractional procurement for a premium, diverse-owned consumer-beverage company: cash-flow prediction, agentic client maintenance, and lead generation. Cash is growth — the systems make it predictable, so the team can move fast with the data and source of truth to back every decision.

AI-Native Incubator

De-risk the future. Protect your partners. Learn from each other.

An invite-only, AI-native incubator for emerging technology and the people designing it. Not a pitch contest — a working table for navigating the complicated realities of strategic partnerships, where a shared source of truth drives the choices you make. Founders and designers get an operator in the room; everyone learns from each other.

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Procurement is less about buying — and more about giving shape to the future, and protecting your partners along the way.